Composer: Hank
Williams Original
performer: Hank Williams (1952)
First release: Timeless
album, September 2001
Recording date: March-May
2001
Recording location: Studio
L (Keith Richards' home studio), Connecticut
Producers: Keith
Richards & Rob
Fraboni Engineer:
Ben
Elliott
Line-up:
Drums: George
Receli
Bass: Paul Nowinski
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Lou Pallo
Steel guitar: John
Pirruccello
Vocal: Keith
Richards
Piano: Blondie
Chaplin
Saxophone: Craig
Dreyer
Trumpet: Tim
Ovimette
The news is out all over town
That you've been seen out running 'round
I know that I should leave but then
What can I do? You win again
This old heart of mine could never see
What everybody knows but me
Just trusting you was my great sin
What can I do? You win again
So sorry, baby, for your victim now
For one day like mine his head will bow
He'll give his heart but all in vain
For one day like me, he'll have to say it,
baby, "You win again"
You have no heart, you have no shame
You take true love, yeah, but not the blame
I guess that I just can't complain
I love you still - you win again
I love you still - you win again
Ooh I love you still now now... - you win
again
You win again
Your face brother.... ooh my my my my my yes
I love you still
You win again
TrackTalk
I was working down (in my studio) and allowed in some guys, Blondie Chaplin and a few other cats that I'm working with. And I got this request to do the something for Timeless, the Hank Williams compilation that came out last year. I said, Yeah, I'd love to do - I was firmly convinced that someone else would have cut it - so I said I'll do it if I can do "You Win Again", and they called back and told me that, funny enough, no one had tried that one. So I said, OK, I'm in. So we cut it down in the basement and it came out and we got a Grammy!